BE@Work: Brief Exercise at Work

Teesside University

Status: Completed

Conditions: High-intensity Interval Training

Treatments: Behavioral: High-intensity interval training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03467594

036/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

BE@Work (Brief Exercise at Work) is a pilot controlled before and after trial of a workplace physical activity programme.

Full description

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of an 8 week workplace physical activity programme on various markers of physical fitness, cardiometabolic health and wellbeing of employees. The primary outcome measures are the following: aerobic fitness, grip strength, leg extensor power, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose levels, lipid profiles, body mass index, waist and hip circumference and self-report measures of psychological wellbeing. The secondary outcome measure is total physical activity. The primary and secondary outcomes measures will be assessed in the control and intervention groups at baseline and at the end of the intervention (8 weeks).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants will be adult (≥18 years) with no health conditions that preclude them from exercise (information obtained via their self-report) and able to understand written and spoken English. Participants will be cleared for exercise participation via the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire Plus (PARQ+)

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion criteria are: Individuals who are not cleared for exercise participation via the PARQ+ will not be eligible to participate. Additionally those unable or unwilling to give informed consent, have any diagnosis or symptoms of cardiovascular or metabolic disease (such as history of heart attack, stroke or diabetes), have been advised by a health professional to avoid physical exercise or activity, are pregnant or might be pregnant and cannot understand and speak English will not be eligible to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

8 week workplace based exercise programme, 3 exercise sessions each week. Exercises will be conducted in an interval training format (60 second exercise bursts, followed by 75 seconds rest). The exercise bursts are designed to elicit ≥85% of participants age predicted maximum heart rate and will be tailored to each individuals fitness level and ability. Exercise sessions will be supervised and conducted in groups, with the option to request individual one-to-one sessions if preferred. Outcome measures assessed at baseline and follow-up (8 weeks)

Treatment:

Behavioral: High-intensity interval training

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Outcome measures only at baseline at follow-up (8 weeks)